michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> ninan: up next, rifle rappers cardi b and nicki minaj separated by security guards at a fashion week party. >> ninan: rifle rappers cardi b and nicki minaj squared off last night at a new york fashion week party. the hair-pulling, show-throwing scuffle reportedly took place on anibal connie during a christina aguilera performance. cardi b was escorted out of black-tie event with a large bump on her head. she later wrote a staithing instagram post claiming nicki minaj had tried to sabotage her career. the richest man in china, jack ma, cocowrnd of the e-commerce empire, alibaba, plans to retire from the company on monday, his 54th birthday. his net worth is $4 billion. the former english teacher says he plans to return to teaching and focus on philanthropy. actor bill daily has died. he starred in a string of hit comedies in the 1960s, 70s, and 80, including "i dream of jeannie." ♪ ♪ jeanie herself, actress barbara eden, remembered daily on twitter today calling him, "our favorite zany astronaut." bob newhart, who costarred with daily on the "the b

i'm michelle miller. judge brett kavanaugh's nomination to the u.s.ourt will be must-see ttv on monday when a woman who accuse asked him of sexual assault have been invited to tell their stories to the senate judiciary committee. kavanaugh denies the charges, but senate democrats are calling for an fbi investigation. president trump says the fbi, quote, doesn't want to be involved, and he says he fully supports his nominee. >> hopefully the woman will come forward, state her case. he will state his case before representatives of the united states senate and then they will vote. >> reporter: nancy cordes begins our coverage. >> reporter: president trump expressed sympathy for his supreme court nominee today but said there's no need to rush his confirmation. >> so we have time available. we will delay the process until it's finished out. >> reporter: as he spoke, the entire senate was in a senate of suspense waiting to see if dr. christine blasey ford would agree to appear next week. >> these are emotional tough things. i'm not going to make her come an

center here in new york city, i'm michelle from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm michelle miller. bs captioning funded by cbs >>> it's wednesday, september 5th, 2018. this is the "cbs morning news." tropical storm gordon pushes inland, but as the storm made landfall, a child is killed and power is knocked out to tens of thousands along the gulf coast. we're tracking the storm. >>> an explosive new book on president trump's white house paints an ugly picture of the current administration, and the president is ramping up his attack on the pulitzer prize-winning author. >>> massachusetts upset. ayanna pressley defeats a ten-term democratic incumbent in the massachusetts house primary. >>> and do not eat, serve, or sell honey smacks. that's the message the cdc is trying to get out after dozens of people fall ill across the country. >>> good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. >>> well, this morning tropical storm gordon is moving in quickly as it moves across louisiana and mississippi. gordon made l

right here in new york city, i'm michelle miller. >>> it's wednesday, september 19th, 2018. this is the cbs morning news. >> another twist in the confirmation process of supreme court justice nominee brett kavanaugh. now the woman who claimed he assaulted her when they were teens is making a new request. >>> the death toll climbs in the aftermath of hurricane florence. rivers are still rising and there is more danger ahead. >>> and big promises made at the summit between both korean leaders. good morning from the cbs morning headquarters. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. the woman who alleges supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh sexually assaulted her 37 years ago says she wants to testify before senate committee. but kristine blaiseny ford wants the fbi to investigate before she talks. the committee has scheduled a hearing on monday and they say that may be her one and only chance to testify. good morning, laura. >> reporter: good morning. lawyers for ford who is now a college professor in california say in the days since she went public she and her family have b

i'm michelle miller. people who live along the carolina coast are boarding up and getting out.l hurricane florence is on a collision course with the outer banks and by the time it hits, most likely friday morning, it's expected to be a monster. evacuation orders have been issued for coastal north and south carolina, and schools and government offices there are already closed. meteorologist megan glaros begins our coverage. massive ir waters. may even potentially get close to category 5 status sometime tomorrow. we're likely looking at a landfall along the carolina coast line sometime first half of the day on friday, at least as it stands right now. the track has it riding underneath the big bermuda high, and that's steering it west. there is a little low pressure, though, that's managed to develop down in the caribbean and the gulf of mexico that could potentially steer this and turn it a little bit more on off to the west which would change that track pushing it farther south. and these steering currents are expected to sort of collapse over maybe three, four, five days out. t

i'm michelle miller. the man formally known as america's dad is getting a taste of american justice. the actor and comedian is behind bars this morning, sentenced to three to ten years in prison for drugging and sexually assaulting a friend of his 14 years ago. cosby is the first celebrity sentenced in the me too era. his lawyers are vowing to appeal, but until then, he is locked up. jericka duncan was at the courthouse when the sentence came down. >> reporter: a solemn looking bill cosby left the courtroom in handcuffs, surrounded by police escorts. andrea constand, whose allegation of sexual assault in 2004 led to cosby's conviction hugged prosecutors. outside the courthouse, cosby accusers proclaimed today as a moment of justice. lise lott-lublin testified during the second trial. did you really believe that bill cosby would be convicted? >> i can't say i believed. what i did is i hoped and i fought and i tried to do everything that was right to support him going to jail. >> reporter: chelan lasha who

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michelle miller reports from downtown detroit. >> reporter: students here at chrysler elementary andll be drinking from water coolers like this instead of their standard drinking fountains. they don't work anymore. no one's clear on what caused this tainted water, but aging pipes and outdated fixtures are the likely suspects. >> there are higher levels of copper and lead not just in detroit, but throughout this country. >> reporter: a few months after taking the helm of detroit's public schools, nikolai viti began seeing the outlines of a health emergency. testing of every water fountain and fixture began in june. in august, he learned 34 out of 50 schools tested so far had harmful levels of lead or copper. any level exposure to lead to children is dangerous. >> that's right, and we're not testing. so this has been an awakening for me as superintendent. >> reporter: the government accountability office reported 57% of u.s. school districts either didn't test their water for lead or were unsure if they did. tests are mandatory in at least seven states, but no federal law requires them

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i'm anthony mason along with michelle miller and dana jacobson.ow about paul mccartney in grand central. can you imagine that? >> did you get an invite? >> no. i remember when he played outside david letterman's marquee. but grand central? >> he's still got it. he's still got it. >>> we beginning this morning with a narrowing hunt for the writer of the op-ed in "the new york times." >> the white house has a short list of who it might be. this comes after president called on attorney general jeff sessions to launch an investigation. meanwhile "the new york times" is promising to keep the writer's identity a secret. >> the newspaper released a statement reading in part, quote, the president's threats both ubds score why we must safeguard the identity of the writer of the op-ed and seven as a reminder of the importance of a free and independent press to american democracy. mola lenghi joins us from the white house with more. good morning. >> good morning. as speculation swirls about who was behind the scathing piece, more than two dozen officials inc

i'm anthony mason along with dana jacobson and michelle miller on what are the waning hours of sum irrelevant. >> where did it go. >> fall begins at 9:54 eastern time, hang on to those last hours as long as you can. make one last trip to the beach today, but nt don't know if this weather. we begin with dr. christine blasey ford asking for more time to make a decision about testifying before this senate judiciary committee. >> the chairman senator chuck grassley tweeting just before midnight said, dr. ford, if you have changed your mind so say so we can move on. grassley had set a deadline last night of 10:00 for ford to make her decision. >> earlier in the evening as that deadline a prochd, a lawyer for ford called it arbitrary and said, quote, it's sole purpose is to bully dr. ford. president trump is spending the weekend at his new jersey golf club. weija is traveling with the president. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, everybody. dr. ford's attorney says her client spent several hours with the fbi said to deal with the recent death threats she's been receiving. and she needs one mo

here's michelle miller. >> reporter: shark attacks are a rare occurrence in massachusetts.s was the first in the state since 2012. bill litton says he is a lucky man to be alive and he says he hopes others learn from his experience. >>> you are a shark attack survivor. >> yeah. >> reporter: bit litton barely escaped with his life swimming offshore. >> i had gone 20 minutes. that's when my leg was seized. >> >> reporter: you said it was excruciating. >> very excruciating. >> reporter: did you see it? >> i felt like i was in a wrestling match because this animal was trying to flip me as i turned my head around to see a big head on my leg that belongs to the shark. and this was my advantage, as it turns out. >> reporter: his advantage, because of something he'd seen on tv. >> nature documentary 101, i knew dolphins always hit the gill. that's the place you go to attack the shark. >> reporter: so, what did you do? >> well, that's a defensive wound. i punched it on the gill. so if i hurt my hand, i think i hurt the shark. and it released and swam away. >> reporter: just like tha

i'm anthony mason along with michelle miller and elaine quijano who's in for dana jacobson.me to the weekend, everyone. we begin with a tribute to senator john mccain. they said good-bye to one of the most revered. >> two former presidents will deliver eulogies for the senator in just a few hours. nancy, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. those go former presidents, barack obama and george w. bush. at mccain's request, the two men who beat him for the ones who pete him was a final bipartisan act for the arizona senator who game just the 31st dig na tair to lie in state at the u.s. capitol last night. a somber respectful and at times emotional crowd filed through the capitol rotunda friday to say good-bye to senator john mark cain. fellow veteran rudy gartner came from alexandria, virginia. >> he always did roy he said he was going to do. he may have fought with our guys, but he had the good sense to come back later on and apologize. >> former colleagues and friends like ohio governor john kasich flew from all over the country. texas republican sam johnson who like mcca

i'm anthony mason, along with dana jacobson and michelle miller. we begin with president trump calling on the fbi to launch an investigation zboo his supreme court nominee, brett kavanaugh. the investigation into sexual assault allegations, against kavanaugh game at the request of arizona republican senator, jeff flake, a key vote in the confirmation. >> the panel passed kavanaugh's nomination out of committee friday, but agreed to flake's request to delay a final vote on the nomination, to allow time for an investigation. >> last night, the president tweeted, our seventh investigation of judge brett kavanaugh. he will someday be recognized as a truly great justice of the united states supreme court. errol barnett is at the white house. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. look, this is a troubling moment for the white house. president trump said that judge kavanaugh had been vetted. but he said this investigation will be limited in scope and last only one week. >> i will be reliant on what senator grassley wants to do. >> reporter: president t

"cbs this morning" co-host michelle miller shows how students and teachers are fighting for the rightst public schools were under control of emergency managers who were trying to lift the district out of debt. but this case is drawing national attention because of its wide-ranging implications, possibly leading to federal changes to the education system. >> everybody ready? >> reporter: no escaping the fact that performance in many detroit public schools is sagging. >> i often have conversations and students say we feel like people don't care about us. we have a book where bill clinton was the president. it was the same book i used when i was in middle school. >> reporter: you're kidding. >> no. >> reporter: although now relocated to another detroit school, rodney fresh used to teach at one of the schools named in a class-action lawsuit which accuses the state of systemic, persistent, and deliberate failure to deliver instruction and tools essential for access to literacy which serve almost exclusively low-income children of color. >> it wasn't just one or two students. regime how many

i'm anthony mason with michelle miller and jacobson.ence is now a slow-moving system but is still very dangerous. we'll tell you about the daring rescues made from the life-threatening floodwaters. >>> then they helped create the first weather satellite and what they're working on now is equally as ground breaking. we'll take a look at what darna is working on for the future. >>> and one picture may be worth a thousand words. but this picture may be worth millions. it's by artist david hockney and it may soon set a new record for work sold at auction by a living artist. we'll talk to him later in the show. >>> but first latest on tropical storm florence, even though it's been downgraded from a hurricane, it's causing dangerous conditions for millions of people in the carolinas. florence is expected to inundate north and south carolina for days with storm surges, heavy rain, and flooding. >> after make landfall, florence moved south along the coast. the rain slammed north carolina last night. this morning, the eye is near myrtle beach, s

miller -- is resigning. it comes as the school is accused of mishandling sex abuse allegations. >>> good morning. it is 8:55. i'm michelleesigning as the school is accused of mishandling sexual abuse allegations. >>> the delta wildfire has completely shut down a stretch of interstate 5 in shasta county. so far more than 15,000 acres have burned. he cause is under investigation. >>> nike is not the only multi- billion-dollar company wading into hot button issues. levi's is now catching both heat and support for a new campaign on gun control. ews updates throughout the day on your favorite platforms, including our website, kpix.com >>> 8:57. we're tracking an accident involving a motorcycle. it's over in the center divide southbound 242 right near gregory lane and causing a backup speeds under 25 miles per hour. slow-and-go through concord and then as you continue into walnut creek, it's going to be a slow ride in the red, 17 minutes from 242 down to highway 24. 580 at 35th, you can see that traffic is pretty heavy westbound. we are in the red, 34 minutes from 238 to highway 24. it doesn't look any better on 880 heading th

kron-4's michelle kingston talked with students and explains how police tracked down the suspects. (pam) the president of presentation high school in san jose stepped down today. mary miller has faced allegations she did not do enough to prevent sexual abuse at the private all- girls school. she announced her resignation in a statement... where she said quote "the allegations of past sexual abuse continue to be a distraction for the school .... and bring negative attention toward presentation." miller says, she hopes her absence will allow the staff to focus on the success and well- being of students. suspects. down the police tracked explains how students and talked with kingston michelle kron-4's lockdown.school into forced the incident the (ken) hurt. the teens were and some of (pam)school.canyon high at american news.stone kron 4 richmond, j.r. stone kron 4 news. (pam) (pam) the president of presentation high school in san jose stepped down today. mary miller has faced allegations she did not do enough to prevent sexual abuse at the private all- girls school. she announced her resignation in a statement... where she said quote "the allegations of past sexual abuse con

michelle kingston talked with students and explains how police tracked down the suspects. (grant) the president of presentation high school in san jose has stepped down... mary miller has faced allegations she did not do enough to prevent sexual abuse at the private all- girls school. she announced her resignation in a statement... where she said quote "the allegations of past sexual abuse continue to be a distraction for the school .... and bring negative attention toward presentation." miller says, she hopes her absence will allow the staff to focus on the success and well- being of students. lawrence karnow: low clouds and fog continued to keep the coastal areas cool today. highs at the coast were only in the 50s and 60s with patchy fog with 70s to 80s inland. tropical storm gordan weakened into a tropical depression today but continued to bring heavy rain to the deep south. we had a few more thunderstorms over the sierra but fog and haze around bay area skies. on the satellite a weak area of high pressure lingers along the west coast but it is getting unusually active in the pacific this early in the season. highs tomorrow will be in the 80s inland with 70s and

i'm michelle miller. another day of fireworks is expected in the u.s.ate at confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. democrats trayed in vain to have the hearing postponed, complaining that the white house was withholding important documents. demonstrators tried to shut the whole thing down and nearly two dozen were arrested. jan crawford reports. >> i welcome everyone to this confirmation hearing on the nomination of -- >> mr. chairman. >> brett kavanaugh. >> mr. chairman. >> reporter: senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley barely finished his sentence. >> mr. chairman, i'd like to be recognized to ask a kbe before we proceed. >> you'll out of order. i'll proceed. >> we cannot possibly move forward. >> reporter: when indicate democrats started the interruptions. >> mr. chairman, i move to adjourn. >> when will we review senator blumenthal's motion to adjourn? >> i make a very clear and simple motion to move into executive session. >> reporter: it was a raucous first day of confirm algs hearings for judge brett kavanaugh, who w